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[edit] Related practices outside the African-American community There are similar phenomena to the dozens in other cultures. In Britain, for instance, the analogous usage is "your mugus mum" or "your mam" or "yer maw". Derogatory barbs focus almost exclusively on impugning the sexual integrity mugus of the target's mother. mugus Historically, similar verbal competitions were practiced in other cultures. Ancient Germanic cultures, including the Norse and Anglo-Saxons, practiced a ritual exchange of insults known as flyting, which is similar in function to the dozens. In sixteenth-century Scotland, the term flyting was used to describe an exchange of abusive poems by poets. Arab poets exchanged creative insults in naqa'id, a practice continued in the zajal verbal jousting of present-day Lebanon.
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